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@joethenuts wrote:

dig  i hope you dont mind answering this   and i hope you dont mind clicking on you  , you say you sometimes use this id to sell  is that correct   , but i can see you buy on this account it only states the sellers id  , i cant view the items and it says private , so how would i know what you brought, here on ebay. 

 

my question is can you buy and sell on 1 id whithout the new buyer know what you paid for it 2 weeks ago on ebay.

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As I said, I made the decision to have separate IDs for buying and selling when eBay still displayed the item titles in feedback, but I keep them separate because people can still click on the seller ID and view the kind of items I may have purchased. I feel any kind of access to my buying habits is inappropriate and not entirely fitting with being a professional seller.

Consider also, that a combined buyer/seller ID has the potential to be somewhat misleading to people at first glance, and while I do know that it's up to individual buyers to research their sellers, the FB percentage carries a lot of weight. If I have 5000 FB and only 1 of those is from selling, it could foster an undeserved level of trust in me as a seller 😉 (Not to mention that buying FB is counted in the total when percentages are worked out after negs - eg say I have have received 100 FB, one of which is a neg from a sale, one is a positive from a sale, while the other 98 are from purchases. My FB percentage will be 99%, but I'd actually have a 50% rating if it was based just on my selling history.